The San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed that the city in February recorded its first fatal overdose victim with the synthetic drug medetomidine in their system. The victim ...

Drug-involved overdose deaths increased by over 500 percent in 2022 according to a study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, with trends attributed to synthetic opioids.

Fatal drug overdoses in Oregon reached record levels in 2023. Published 10:05 am Monday, December 16, 2024. ... More than 1,800 Oregonians died of drug overdoses in 2023, ...

Federal officials have celebrated a striking drop in drug overdoses across the country. But state-level data shows that Black people are suffering significantly worse outcomes than white people.

Fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses among troops dropped by more than 40% over a two-year span, the Defense Department said this week in a new report that found fentanyl-related deaths at a seven ...

Joelle Blaser pleaded not guilty Monday for allegedly delivering a fatal overdose of pills to her partner at a medical ...

In Michigan, 1,533 people died from drug overdoses in 2013 — up 18% from the previous year. Prior to 2013, fatal overdoses in Michigan were steadily declining from a peak of 1,416 deaths in 2009.

Drug-related deaths in the United States—which have risen nearly every year for the last two decades, often by double-digit percentages—are expected to fall substantially this year. According ...

As a result of drug busts, the Cato Institute's Jeffrey Singer suggests, "people who use drugs in those neighborhoods had to turn to unfamiliar and potentially less trustworthy suppliers.

FISHERS, IND — A new drug called nitazene, stronger than fentanyl, has appeared in Central Indiana. It was recently connected to a fatal overdose. The Hamilton County Coroner says nitazene is ...

The Sept. 11, 2024, search warrant executed at Miller’s property, during which he was arrested on drug trafficking charges, produced cell phone records that corroborated Miller’s account of ...